Improvement in umbrella-tip cups



R. LUBLINSKI.

UMBRELLA TIP-CUP No. 189,564. Patented April 17, 1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFIGE.

FITCH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN UMBRELLA-TIP CUPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189,564., dated April 17, 1877; application filed April 28,1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT LUBLINsKI, of London, Middlesex county, England,- have invented a new and useful Improvement in Umbrella-Tip Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of said specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved umbrella-tip fastener, and Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 shows the inclines flattened or straightened out.

My invention relates .to that kind of umbrella-tip fasteners formed of a cup-like piece of metal connected to the umbrella-stick, and made to move into and out of engagement with the tips by the agency of a screw; and consists of the combination of the tip-fastener with the peculiarly-constructed screw hereinafter described.

In the drawings, A is the ferrule, provided with inclines or threads. These are formed of two strips of metal, on one edge of each of which is cut a series of inclines. (Shown at a b, Fig. 3.) These strips are bent into a cylindrical form, and put onto and soldered or otherwise secured to the ferrule A with the inclines opposite to each other, and separated to receive the sleeve 0, with inclines on both its edges, as shown in plane at d, Fig. 3. The sleeve cis placed upon the ferrule between the inclines a b, and left free to revolve or turn on the ferrule. The tip-holder or cup-disk e is placed upon and secured to the sleeve 0, and

the whole is arranged so that, when the ribs of the umbrella are folded around the stick, the cup 6 will be, by being turned, run up so as to inclose and hold securely the tips, and when the cap is turned back it will liberate and set free the said tips. These devices constitute a neat, efficient, and cheaply-made means of moving and retaining in a fixed position the said tip-cup, and limits its motion in both directions.

I do not claim, broadly, an umbrella-tip holder moved by means of a screw, intending ROBERT LUBLINSKI. Witnesses:

PHILIP S. JUsTIcE, EDWARD GEORGE QENMAN. 

